AAT Certificate in Accounting Level 2

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Course outcomes: Basic Costing • Understanding an organisation’s cost recording system and using it to record or extract data • Use of spreadsheets to convey information on actual and budgeted income and expenditure Computerised Accounts • Entering data at the start of an accounting period to set up customer and supplier accounts • Recording and processing customer and supplier transactions • Recording and reconciling bank and cash transactions • Processing and using journals to enter accounting transactions • Production of reports (day books, account activity, aged analysis, statements or remittance advice) Work effectively in accounting and finance • Understanding an organisation’s accounting or payroll function • Using numeracy and literacy communication skills • Working independently or in a team to prioritise tasks and manage colleagues’ responsibilities • Understanding ethical values, principles and importance of confidentiality • Understanding and explaining benefits to organisations of sustainable values Processing bookkeeping transactions • Understanding double-entry bookkeeping, integrating books of prime entry and describing coding system functions • Understanding discounts and settlement, trade and bulk discount differences • Preparing and processing customer and supplier invoices and credit notes • Totaling and balancing a 3-colmn analysed cash book • Totaling, balancing and reconciling petty cash records within an analysed petty cash book • Processing ledger transactions and extracting a trial balance Control accounts, journals and the banking system • Understanding the purpose and use of control accounts and journals • Maintaining and using control accounts and the journal • Reconciling a bank statement with cash book • Understanding the banking process and main services of banks and building societies

Course information

Name: AAT Certificate in Accounting Level 2 Qualification title: Certificate in Accounting (QCF) Qualification type: Assessment Unitised assessment Awarding Association of Accounting Technicians Created 20151125 08:53:41 Updated 20160610 15:03:27

Entry requirements

None

Provider

Rutland County Council
Institution funded by other Government Department
adultlearning@rutland.gov.uk
01572 758122
http://www.rals.org.uk

Address

Rutland Adult Learning and Skills Service
Oakham Enterprise Park, Ashwell Road, Oakham Town: Rutland